Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear-headed. There was no fairness in it. The cards most picked up put them into the sucker class; the cards of a few enabled them to become robbers. The playing of the cards was life – the crowd of players, society. The table.

I picked up my college copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’ in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I’d underlined. The answer was basically: everything.

It was great out there and it was a personal best for me. The sport has picked up a lot in last few years and Indians are doing so well in it.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy’s pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

I was always into music. But I didn’t want to get into music because I didn’t want to put so much money and so much time into it and it don’t get picked up and me not get nowhere with it

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

I had always been the one who picked up all the stragglers and stray followers.